After closing Uptown shop, Bakesale Betty talks business and family

Customers gather Saturday morning on Telegraph Avenue and wait for Bakesale Betty to open for business.

The wig is gone and so is the line, at least for now.

It’s close to 3 p.m., and Bakesale Betty sold out of its last sandwich a little over an hour ago. The shop’s co-owner, Alison Barakat, who also goes by “Betty” while she’s working, is not wearing the trademark blue wig that customers have come to recognize. Instead, the dark-haired woman, dressed in black, is standing under an awning talking to one of the shop’s neighbors, holding her young son George in front of her while offering the toddler bowtie pasta on a fork.